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Cartographies of Exile - A New Spatial Literacy (Paperback)
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Cartographies of Exile - A New Spatial Literacy (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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This book proposes a fundamental relationship between exile and
mapping. It seeks to understand the cartographic imperative
inherent in the exilic condition, the exilic impulses fundamental
to mapping, and the varied forms of description proper to both. The
vital intimacy of the relationship between exile and mapping
compels a new spatial literacy that requires the cultivation of
localized, dynamic reading practices attuned to the complexities of
understanding space as text and texts as spatial artifacts. The
collection asks: what kinds of maps do exiles make? How are they
conceived, drawn, read? Are they private maps or can they be shaped
collectively? What is their relationship to memory and history? How
do maps provide for new ways of imagining the fractured experience
of exile and offer up both new strategies for reading displacement
and new displaced reading strategies? Where does exilic mapping fit
into a history of cartography, particularly within the
twentieth-century spatial turn? The original work that makes up
this interdisciplinary collection presents a varied look at
cartographic strategies employed in writing, art, and film from the
pre-Contact Americas to the Renaissance to late postmodernism; the
effects of exile, in its many manifestations, on cartographic
textual systems, ways of seeing, and forms of reading; the
challenges of traversing and mapping unstable landscapes and
restrictive social and political networks; and the felicities and
difficulties of both giving into the map and attempting to escape
the map that provides for exile in the first place. Cartographies
of Exile will be of interest to students and scholars working in
literary and cultural studies; gender, sexuality, and race studies;
anthropology; art history and architecture; film, performance,
visual studies; and the fine arts.
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